{"id":255,"date":"2015-11-25T17:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:18:22","slug":"being-a-mom-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/being-a-mom-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a mom first"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a mom.<\/p>\n

It’s awesome.<\/p>\n

It’s also the hardest thing I’ve ever done.<\/p>\n

I’m learning to be not-quite-selfish.<\/p>\n

I’m learning to balance my time.<\/p>\n

I’m learning to be fair to myself while being fair to my daughter.<\/p>\n

I find myself drawn to work with people who get that I’m trying to be a mom first.<\/p>\n

And I try to encourage other parents to do that first – priorities.<\/p>\n

It’s so hard, though.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t be this hard, but it really is.<\/p>\n

I’m raising a mini-me, you see. And I’ve got a pretty intense personality.<\/p>\n

Put that in a tiny body…<\/p>\n

Whoa baby.<\/p>\n

I appreciate my parents more than ever now.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to be a mom first, but I wind up being\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>clinical about it…<\/p>\n

I’m trying to make it more natural.<\/p>\n

Not as easy as it sounds,<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most natural thing in the world all at once.<\/p>\n

Being a mom is so many emotions.<\/p>\n

I cry all the time.<\/p>\n

I laugh all the time.<\/p>\n

I’m super elated and one moment later frustrated beyond all reason.<\/p>\n

I’m learning to be more patient.<\/p>\n

With everyone else…<\/p>\n

But mostly with myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a mom. It’s awesome. It’s also the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m learning to be not-quite-selfish. I’m learning to balance my time. I’m learning to be fair to myself while being fair to my daughter. I find myself drawn to work with people who get that I’m trying to be a mom first. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,6,50],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}